TY  - BOOK
AU  - Metzger, Bruce M
AU  - Metzger,Bruce M
TI  - The Text of the New Testament:  Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration
SN  - 0195072979   
U1  - B45.4 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; THE   MATERIALS  FOR   THE   TEXTUAL   CRITICISM OF   THE   NEW   TESTAMENT  The Making of Ancient Books	  THE   MATERIALS   OF  ANCIENT   BOOKS	3  THE   FORMS   OF   ANCIENT   BOOKS	5  ANCIENT  SCRIBES   AND   THEIR   HANDIWORK	8  (with an added note on colophons)	19  `helps for readers` in new testament manu¿  scripts	21  STATISTICS   OF    GREEK   MANUSCRIPTS   OF   THE   NEW  TESTAMENT	3!  Important Witnesses to the Text of the New Testa¿  ment	36  GREEK   MANUSCRIPTS   OF   THE   NEW   TESTAMENT	36  ANCIENT   VERSIONS   OF   THE   NEW   TESTAMENT	67  PATRISTIC QUOTATIONS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT        86  Noiivanawa ivanxoafNoo -iia  The Causes of Error in the Transmission of the Text  of the New Testament	186  UNINTENTIONAL  CHANGES	186  INTENTIONAL  CHANGES	195  The Practice of New Testament Textual Criticism     207  BASIC CRITERIA FOR THE EVALUATION OF VARIANT  READINGS	2O7  THE PROCESS OF EVALUATING VARIANT READINGS         211  THE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF SELECTED PASSAGES	2IQ  THE  HISTORY  OF NEW TESTAMENT TEXTUAL  CRITICISM  AS  REFLECTED  IN  PRINTED  EDITIONS  OF  THE  GREEK TESTAMENT  The Pre-critical Period: The Origin and Dominance  of the Textus Receptus	95  FROM  XIMENES  AND  ERASMUS  TO  THE  ELZEVIRS	95  THE  COLLECTION  OF  VARIANT  READINGS                              IO6  The Modern Critical Period: From Griesbach to  the Present	1 19  THE BEGINNINGS OF SCIENTIFIC TEXTUAL CRITICISM OF  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT  THE  OVERTHROW  OF  THE  TEXTUS  RECEPTUS  THE APPLICATION OF TEXTUAL CRITICISM TO THE TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT  The Origins of Textual Criticism as  a  Scholarly  Discipline	149  Modern Methods of Textual Criticism	156  THE   CLASSICAL   METHOD   OP   TEXTUAL  CRITICISM	156  REACTIONS AGAINSTCLASSICALTEXTUAL CRITICISM       159  STATISTICAL  METHODS   OF   TEXTUAL   CRITICISM	163  LOCAL  TEXTS   AND   ANCIENT   EDITIONS	169  ECLECTICISM,   OR  `RATIONAL  CRITICISM1	175  METHODS OF  DETERMINING FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS  AMONG   MANUSCRIPTS	179  CONJECTURAL   EMENDATION	182
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